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Originally Posted by The_little_didgee
I guess all the bullying I endured in school and my psychiatric misdiagnosis can be considered trauma or abuse. I know I don't have the kinds of problems that people tend to post in the psychotherapy forum.
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Yeah it can be considered trauma/abuse, but I suppose not everyone develops attachment problems from it depending on age & quality of other relationships etc. I don't relate to the 'I hate you, don't leave me' BPD push/pull that's common in the T forum, and it gets heated over there a lot, so I hardly ever feel safe enough to post.
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Originally Posted by The_little_didgee
Losing time sounds so scary. I never experienced anything like that without being acutely ill or using a mind altering substance. My dad lost time when he drove to Ottawa when my sister was in a serious car accident and required emergency surgery. He has no psychiatric history whatsoever.
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Yes, dissociation is very common, even in non-MI people. Loads of people drive to work without being aware of their route etc which is mild dissociation, and it's common in acute stress like your Dad's situation. It's very scary when you realise what has happened in the time that you missed though!
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Originally Posted by The_little_didgee
Is that like a visual distortion? Objects appear to come alive and standout. They seem to have an aura and can sometimes vibrate.
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No, not for me. It looked completely real, like a film, but I just knew it wasn't real. I don't know how/why - nothing about the environment looked abnormal, it was just that I was perceiving it as not real. The closest I can approximate it to is a 3D film in the cinema...
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Originally Posted by The_little_didgee
My experience felt real and I had no insight when it happened. I just went along with it.
I'm not sure what a tactile hallucination is because I never had one. The closest experience I had was feeling like there was a straight tube that connected my mouth to my ****. There was no stomach, and small and large bowel inside my abdomen.
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I would call that a somatic delusion rather than a tactile hallucination, but I'm not entirely sure. A tactile hallucination would be feeling something, like bugs crawling on your skin. Feeling a chip inside your head would be more of a somatic delusion IMO because it's a belief rather than a sensation (you can't feel your brain), same with your experience of your intestines being missing. That's my understanding of it, but I'm not a pdoc. But mine called my belief my brain was rotting a somatic delusion because it was a belief about my body, rather than a specific sensation I was feeling 
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Originally Posted by The_little_didgee
Another weird but different experience had was with a fan. I heard voices in the noise it made.
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My printer used to regularly talk to me when it was on. I always considered that a regular auditory hallucination, because what it was saying wasn't related to the sound it was actually making (ie it wasn't an illusion, me mishearing the printer noise into words).
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Originally Posted by Erti
Yeah, we've been very close. We dated for 5 almost 6 years before we broke up and we then became friends with benefits for a while. Still attached to him.
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I think that's understandable when you've been close so long.
Sorry, I feel like I'm taking ages to read & put my thoughts into words and reply to everyone :/
*Willow*